The Boone Family

On Thursday we went to the doctor's for his 4 month vaccinations. I know he is 5 months old but that is when we could get in. He weighs 16 lbs. and 10 0z. 26 inches long. The doctor said he is right on track. He is about in the 65 percentile with height and weight. He is now sitting up on his own and getting to be such a big boy. The doctor said that it is now time to introduce rice cereal and then onto veggies. I am so excited. We had him in the high chair tonight having his first meal. He was unsure at first but then he started to eat. He likes to talk and blow raspberries while he eats so he blows the food everywhere. The feeding took a longer time than I thought...about 30 minutes. Each night we will add more food. Check out the video clip of him eating! Today he rode in a shopping cart without the car seat. He loved it. He was looking around and checking out everyone out.

On October 28 th Carter said da da . This was so cool. He kept saying it over and over and his tongue was just flapping around in his mouth. Since then he has hardly said it again but don't worry we are practicing it everyday. I had mentioned before that he was more vocal. His new thing is to make a strong tarzan yell. It's not screeching just a belly yell. He does it a lot in the carseat on our way to the sitters. With the weather being so unseasonably warm we had him out in the leaves. This was funny to watch him play in the leaves but he really just wanted to put them in his mouth. This past weekend he has been fighting a cold. Poor little guy has had a hard time breathing through his nose. We have an automatic snot sucker. This machine is a little thing that you put up the nostril and it sucks out the snot. He hates this thing. I have tried to sneak up with it but he still knows. The makers of this tool have also added music to the snot sucker so I play the music when I...